Editing The Hershey Company (section)

====Cadbury====
{{Main|Cadbury}}
In 1988, Hershey's acquired the rights to manufacture and distribute many [[Cadbury]]-branded products in the United States (except gum and mints, which are part of [[Mondelez International|Mondelēz International]]). In 2015, they sued a British importer to halt imports of British Cadbury chocolate, which reportedly angered consumers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rooney |first=Ben |title=Hershey Lawsuit Angers Fans of British Chocolate in U.S. |work=CNN Money |date=January 23, 2015 |url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/23/news/companies/hershey-chocolate-trademark}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Baker |first=Andrew |title=Why is Hershey's Afraid of British Chocolate? |work=The Telegraph |date=January 26, 2015 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11370055/Why-is-Hersheys-afraid-of-British-chocolate.html}}</ref> A [[merger]] between Mondelēz and Hershey's was considered but abandoned in 2016 after Hershey's turned down a $23 billion cash-and-stock bid.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mondelez abandons pursuit of U.S. chocolate maker Hershey |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hershey-m-a-mondelez-intl-idUSKCN1142BE |access-date=July 23, 2019 |work=Reuters |date=August 29, 2016}}</ref>